Dr Angharad Elias BA, MPhil, PhD

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Dr Angharad Elias looks towards the camera.

Administrative Officer and Research Fellow

Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS)

Tel: 01970 636543
Email: a.elias@cymru.ac.uk 

Role in the University

Co-ordinator for CAWCS and Research Fellow 

Background

Angharad studied for an MPhil at Aberystwyth University and a PhD at Bangor University specializing in medieval Welsh law before joining CAWCS in 2007 as the Administrative Officer.

Angharad has organized numerous seminars, memorial lectures, one-day forums and international conferences. 

She is the Law Editor for Studia Celtica since 2023: Studia Celtica | UWP

Research Interests

Medieval Welsh law manuscripts.

Angharad’s publication, Yr Ail Lyfr Du o’r Waun: Golygiad Beirniadol ac Eglurhaol o Lawysgrif Peniarth 164 (H) (2 vols., Caergrawnt, 2018), was awarded the University of Wales Hywel Dda Prize for 2018. 

Expertise

Authority on medieval Welsh law.

Publications

  • Llyfr Cynyr ap Cadwgan: Pamffledi Cyfraith Hywel (Aberystwyth: Seminar Cyfraith Hywel, 2006); 
  • ‘Llyfr Cynog of Cyfraith Hywel and St Cynog of Brycheiniog’, Welsh History Review, 23, no. 1 (2006), 27–47;
  • ‘Llawysgrif LlGC Peniarth 164 a pharhad Cyfraith Hywel yn yr Oesoedd Canol diweddar’, Llên Cymru, 33 (2010), 33–50; 
  • with Morfydd E. Owen, ‘Lawmen and lawbooks’, in N. Cox and T. G. Watkin (eds), Canmlwyddiant, Cyfraith a Chymreictod: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Dafydd Jenkins 1911–2012 (Bangor: The Welsh Legal History Society, 2013), pp. 106–50;
  • ‘Cam o’r tywyllwch: nodyn ar lawysgrif cyfraith LlGC Peniarth 166’, Studia Celtica, L (2016), 107–17;
  • Yr Ail Lyfr Du o’r Waun: Golygiad Beirniadol ac Eglurhaol o Lawysgrif Peniarth 164 (H) (2 vols., Caergrawnt: Seminar Cyfraith Hywel,  2018);
  • ‘Dr Morfydd E. Owen a thraddodiadau Brycheiniog’, in Sara Elin Roberts, Simon Rodway and Alexander Falileyev (eds), Cyfarwydd Mewn Cyfraith (Welsh Legal History Society XVII: Bangor, 2022); pp. 46–56: Dr Morfydd E. Owen a thraddodiadau Brycheiniog (uwtsd.ac.uk)
  • ‘“Ail i neb yn ei ddysg Gymraeg”: Dr Siôn Dafydd Rhys a Chyfraith Hywel’, forthcoming in Studia Celtica, LVIII (2024).

Additional Information

Member of Seminar Cyfraith Hywel